Department of the ArmyRapid Equipping Force

toInternational Armaments

Technology and Exhibition

Paul StoskusDeputy DirectorRapid Equipping Force16 June 2004

10 MaySTART

29 May$s

Received

2002 2003

28 JunContract

2 JulArrived

1 AugDepart

23 AugAAR

Missions

4 Bunkers 1 Cache26 Caves 1 Compound 3 Buildings

Doctrine, TTPsSystem Refinement

Oct Nov Dec Feb Mar May AugRIRS REF REF 2

Afghanistan• Fwd Teams linked to units• Continued to equip with new items

Kuwait / Iraq• Teams established, pushed forward • New threats, new requirements• REF took equipment into battle

REF - A Short History

The CSA’s Guidance

Mission: Provide operational commanders with rapidly employable solutions to enhance lethality, survivability and force protection through insertion ofCOTS-GOTS (Equip) and Future Force technologies (Insert) whileinforming Army stakeholders (Assess) to remain ahead of an adaptive enemy.

• In Theater • Enroute To Theater • Transforming Units (3ID/101st)

Current Force Future ForceEQUIP INSERT

•Rapidly Evaluate•Feed Spiral Revisions•Systemic Feedback

•Warfighter Focus•Rapid Implementation•Evolving, Adaptive Enemy

•Concepts•Threshold Technologies•Surrogates

ASSESS

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REF UsesOperational Commander’s

Near Term Requirement Process…

Operational Commander Requirement Identification

ONS

… and its own rapid fielding model

ASPBApproved

ONS

REFGOTS/COTS/NDI

Contract and Develop

REFDeploy/Train/

Sustain

REFEnter into Army

Acquisition Process

30 daysOriginal

RequirementMet

60 days

REF Projects Mappedto Categories

Force ProtectionCounter MortarCounter SniperCounter MineIEDs

• EHAT Kits• S –System• ASP Ammunition

Marking (Powder &Markers)

• ASP AmmunitionMarkingMicroencapsulatedMalodorants

• Product AcousticSignature System(PASS)

• Quantum SnifferExplosive Detector

• Specialized SearchDogs

• REF Mine DetectingDogs

• Medium Flail HWUpgrade

• Mini Flail HWUpgrade

• Gunfire DetectionSystem (PILAR)

• Boomerang ShooterDetection & Location

• Auto Gun Mount• HMMWV

Modifications• Picatinny Lightweight

Remote WeaponsStation

• Unattended TranisentAcoustic MASINTSystem (UTAMS)

• Hostile ArtilleryLocating System(HALO)

• Mobile MOUT• Joint Precision

Airdrop System• Handheld Thermal

Sight• Fiberscope• Expray• Magnetometers• Ferrotrace• Walk Through

Metal Detectors• Itemizer3• Translators• Vapor Tracer• Entry Scans• HMMWV

Modification• HMMWV Turret

Protection• Armored

CommercialVehicle (ACV)

• Underground VoidDetection

• Battery PoweredConditioner

• Vehicle ProtectionProjects

• AN/VAS-5 Driver’sVision Enhancer(DVE)

• EVD-3000• Jaws of Life• eTREX GPS• Mobile Vehicle and

ContainerInspection System

• Quantum SnifferExplosive Detector

Priority Threat: IED, RPG, Mortar, Small Arms and ManPads

REF Projects Mappedto Categories

Force ProtectionCounter MortarCounter SniperCounter MineIEDs

• EHAT Kits• S –System• ASP Ammunition

Marking (Powder &Markers)

• ASP AmmunitionMarkingMicroencapsulatedMalodorants

• Product AcousticSignature System(PASS)

• Quantum SnifferExplosive Detector

• Specialized SearchDogs

• REF Mine DetectingDogs

• Medium Flail HWUpgrade

• Mini Flail HWUpgrade

• Gunfire DetectionSystem (PILAR)

• Boomerang ShooterDetection & Location

• Auto Gun Mount• HMMWV

Modifications• Picatinny Lightweight

Remote WeaponsStation

• Unattended TranisentAcoustic MASINTSystem (UTAMS)

• Hostile ArtilleryLocating System(HALO)

• Mobile MOUT• Joint Precision

Airdrop System• Handheld Thermal

Sight• Fiberscope• Expray• Magnetometers• Ferrotrace• Walk Through

Metal Detectors• Itemizer3• Translators• Vapor Tracer• Entry Scans• HMMWV

Modification• HMMWV Turret

Protection• Armored

CommercialVehicle (ACV)

• Underground VoidDetection

• Battery PoweredConditioner

• Vehicle ProtectionProjects

• AN/VAS-5 Driver’sVision Enhancer(DVE)

• EVD-3000• Jaws of Life• eTREX GPS• Mobile Vehicle and

ContainerInspection System

• Quantum SnifferExplosive Detector

Priority Threat: IED, RPG, Mortar, Small Arms and ManPads

REF Projects Mappedto Categories cont.

Priority Threat: IED, RPG, Mortar, Small Arms and ManPads

CommunicationsISRWeaponsRoboticsBiometricsUVAs

• Raven• MAVARC• Vigilante

• Mobile AFIS andFingerprint Live Scan

• AutomatedFingerprintIdentification System(AFIS) ARC

• Packbot• Robot M-gator• MARKBOT• EODBOT• ODIS• High Mobility Tactical

Micro-Robot• Railbot• REDOWL (Robot

Enhanced DetectionOutpost with Lasers)

• Throwbot• Panther Tank Robot

• M4 Slings• CQBR Short Barrel

M4• CMAG• AN/PSQ 18• Close Quarters

Battle Sight (CQBS)• C-More CTAC Red

Dot Sights• EO Sights• MK125 MOD 0

Tripod• FN303• Shoot around the

Corner Sights• TWS Hide Monitor• Trap 50• Trijicon ACOGs• TLOS• E-50 Quick Change

Barrel M2 50.cal.• M14-A1 (EBR) Stocks• Aiming Laser• AN/PAS 13B (V)• AN/TAS-6A NODLR• GEM Tech

Suppressor

• Rapid AerostatInitial Deployment(RAID)

• Well Camera• Battlefield Optical

SurveillanceSystem (BOSS)

• NS Microwave• MERLIN• ARL M6/MARSS IV• Change Detection• Acoustic Antenna• SASS Lite• Remote Acoustic

Imagery• Tactical

ExploitationSystem (TES) Lite

• Search Lights• REAP• Sense through the

Wall Radar (STTW)• CHEAP

• LRAD• RAMP 25• Advanced Robotic

Controller• Breadcrumb• Satellite Internet• HT1000 Radio

REF: WELLCAMS2 March 2003US Soldiersmoving tooquickly tosearch Afghanwells

3 March 2003REF FieldEngineer makesfirst wellcam out ofspare parts fromthe lab

4 March 200382nd ABN soldier finds weapon cacheusing REF proto-wellcam

NOWFifth-generation wireless Wellcamsdeployed with 82nd, 101st, and 10th

MTN units in Afghanistan and Iraq

REF: POCKET TERPS29 March 2003Soldiers needmore Pashtuinterpreters to helpwith village searchcommands

1 April 2003REF FieldEngineers recordPashtu phraseson a PDA,interface using“web page” format

21 April 20033rd-gen ruggedPocketTerpsinclude High-ValueTargets, EODmanuals, first aid;soldiers call it the“Magic Key”

NOWEighth-generation PocketTerpsbeing developed in Iraq; nowincludes loudspeakers, multiplelanguages; now also being used intraffic checkpoints for safe standoffdistance from vehicles

May 2003 feedback from Task Force Devil Squad Leaders: “I’d take this on every mission. Before I had to do charadesfor forty minutes. Now they listen and respond in forty seconds.”

REF: MAGNETOMETERS21 August 2003BG Bagby (CJTF-180) sent arequest to REF for a way tosearch hay, manure, dirt pilesfor hidden weapons

21-25 August 2003REF conducted fieldresearch to find anappropriate COTSsolution (SchonstedtGA-92XTD)

3-5 September 2003Two prototype unitsordered, delivered to REFand shipped to theater.CJSOTF then ordered fiftyto support their operations

NOW120 additional units have beenshipped to theater for variousunits as part of the forceprotection package approved in 6January Army Strategic PlanningBoard meeting

REF: PILARMay 2003Operational Needs Statement from101st approved in Army StrategicBoard meeting

June 2003Twenty delivered to Iraq

NOWSpiral development potential incounter mortar

REF: ARMOR KITSNovember2003InitialRequirementsMeeting

December2003ASPBapprovedrequirement

January 2004First eighteenkits delivered toIraq

NOWContinuing to work with PM onemerging requirements.

Provided two underbody armorkits for testing

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